The Regent Digest: Week 8, Term 1 2018 No Images? Click here 20 March 2018 Dear Regent Families For those families who are new to Regent College this year, I trust that you're enjoying our Regent Digest publication. Hopefully, the key themes are clear and simple; they are intended to reflect some things we really value - Learning and Community. Harmony Day Assembly Harmony Day is about celebrating cultural diversity; something we enjoy at Regent College. Mums and dads are invited to attend a special Harmony Day celebration event this coming Wednesday 21, following the morning bell (approximately 8.40am), upstairs in the College hall. The College choir will perform along with some other special presentations. Easter Assembly. Families are invited to attend an Easter assembly next Wednesday 29 March, following the morning bell, here at the College. After the assembly we'd love you to stay a while and enjoy some hot cross buns, courtesy of the Parent Collective. Easter services at Riverview Church. For Easter service details, visit HERE. A reminder to families that there is no school on Easter Friday (March 30) and Easter Monday (2nd April). Blessings Derek Nicholls Kindergarten 2019. Sibling Enrolments. Limited spaces. Current College families who have a Kindergarten aged child 2019, parents should confirm enrolments ASAP to avoid disappointment. Kindergarten 1 and 2Each of us is unique and special in so many ways; however, there are particular things that unify us and bring us together as a "collective". In Kindergarten 1 and 2, the children have been discovering and learning to respect the different things that make us who we are. We have had many conversations about what body parts we have and these discussions have led to deeper thoughts about what lies beneath our skin.
Mrs Huxley Kindergarten 3What a busy time we are having in Kindergarten. Kindy 3 have been busy learning about how to measure objects and people accurately! We talked about the need to have a base line and the importance of using objects that are the same to make sure we get the measure right every time. We have, of course, been measuring our feet as we love taking our shoes off! We love stories and we have been learning about authors and illustrators. We can say the word author but the word illustrator is a little tricky! As we read, the children are gaining an appreciation and understanding of purpose and meaning of a range of texts and different genres. The hospital corner is a huge hit with many emergency surgical procedures happening and some of the toy babies have a great many band aids! As the children explore their classroom they are learning to problem solve, develop skills for working with others and displaying confidence in their own learning and capabilities. The children have settled into the classroom and have become a team. Mrs Pearson, Mrs Richardson and myself count it an absolute joy to be part of the children’s lives. There are many days where some of the questions they ask make us laugh! Someone asked why God made cheese! Another child asked why they were still small and is it true that teachers were once babies and lastly but most importantly where did Jesus get pencils from! This week was the marshmallow test. Ask your little ones to tell you all about it. You should all be so proud of your children who displayed great patience and self-control. Green sheep did not do as well! Here is the link. Mrs Stirling, Mrs Richardson, Pre-Primary 1In PP1 we have just wrapped up our HASS (Humanities and Social Sciences) unit about families and diversity. It has been so interesting finding out all the places around the world where our class mates and families come from! We have been spending time teaching each other how to say “hello” and count to 10 in different languages like: Vietnamese, Mandarin, Italian, Japanese, Bahasa Indonesian and Tamil, just to name a few! We have begun our science topic for the term “Biological Sciences” and this week we have been focusing on living and non-living things as well as deciding whether these things are also God made, or man made? A living thing is something that can breathe or grow or eat or move – or all of the above! Our circle time discussions have been interesting in debating and deciding about whether certain things like rainbows, the sun, or volcanos are living or non-living? We decided that they are God made things and can be classified as non-living things, but need other things like rain, sun or tectonic plates to work together in order to make a rainbow in the sky or a huge volcanic eruption. It has been great fun learning about so many things in PP1 and we are so excited to learn more about the amazing world that God created. Miss Beath Pre Primary 2In Pre-Primary 2 we have been working on our number skills in Mathematics; using a range of hands-on activities to help us develop our knowledge. Our friends have traced around us with wooden blocks, then we counted the amount of blocks we used. After this we tried to write the number that we counted out. We also read the book '10 Black Dots', and it was up to us to design our own page for the book. Using black stones and by drawing images around them we created our representation for the book. These activities were working on our one to one correspondence, number sequence skills, cardinal number knowledge and number writing skills.Miss Baker Pre-Primary 3Fun in PP3 In Mathematics we have been learning to recognize and describe two dimensional shapes. We have been shape detectives in our classroom. Children are given clues about how many sides and vertices the mystery shape has and then they search the classroom to find an object that fits the description. We have been learning about how God can do anything! God helped Moses and the Israelites escape from slavery in Egypt. He separated the water so that the Israelites could walk through on dry ground. We decided to have a go at separating water to make a dry path in a basin. We tried and tried but we could not make the water separate! On Tuesdays Mrs Saxton teaches Digital Technology in PP3 and brings the Bee Bots to our classroom. We have been learning to program the Bee Bots to move forward, backwards, left and right. The children are developing positional language and problem solving skills. Mrs Coffey Year OneEach week in Year 1.1 we read a new book and explore a range of activities related to literature. Over the last two weeks we read 'The Pear in the Pear Tree' and 'Arthur'. We have been learning about the setting of the story - where does it take place? We drew story maps after reading 'The Pear in the Pear Tree' to show where the characters went. It also helped us retell the events of the story. After reading 'Arthur', some of us painted the setting, which was a Pet Shop. We also imagined the future setting of the story and painted what we thought Arthur's new home might look like. We wrote letters to Arthur to cheer him up in the Pet Shop. Some of the girls made themselves comfortable by taking clipboards outside and putting their feet up while they worked! Miss Shaw Year OneThe Year 1 students continued to work on their number and counting skills during math rotations. Our latest rotations included: bundling groups of pop-sticks in 10s, building towers to 100, making our own number lines, and counting and labelling collections around the classroom. All of our number lines were slightly different. Some of us made number lines to 20 while others to 300. If you visit either Year 1 classroom, you will notice the many sticky notes around the room. Just about everything had been counted and labelled! We even counted the large container of marbles. To make this easier, we used containers and placed ten marbles in each. By counting by 10s, we discovered we have 370 marbles. Our next Mathematics topic is Place Value where we will learn to partition numbers to 100. Miss Jongeling Year TwoIn Science, the students had to work in teams to investigate objects that sink or float in water and how to change a sinker into a floater. They attempted to change a ball of plasticine into a shape that would float and some of the students succeeded! The students explored where air can be found. They observed and discussed the result of placing a glass containing a tissue upside down in a container of water, and the differences in the fall of a crumpled sheet of paper and a flat sheet of paper. The students contributed to discussions about how air can push and created a force-arrow diagram to record their ideas about how air can push on a falling object. In Geography, the students have been learning the continents and the oceans of Earth and have enjoyed viewing a variety of you-tube videos. They have labelled a map of the world and will use their maps to pose geographical questions about familiar unfamiliar places. Mrs Jenkins Year ThreeYear 3's have been very creative with an assignment combining Design and Technologies and Mathematics. They were asked to design and produce a game or activity that will either teach students the two times tables or provide an opportunity to practise them. They were asked to imagine that they will have an opportunity to pitch their game in a marketing meeting with Mr Abacus (the Yr 3 .1 class), the owner of an educational game company. Students were allowed to work on their own or in a group and use a variety of materials ranging from cardboard, counters, Lego and even play dough. At various stages of the process students were asked to reflect on their own work and comment on each other's in order to see what was working well and what improvements were necessary. Once each student had recorded a reflection on Seesaw we shared our games in a roaming game playing gallery. Now we have to 'sell' them to Mr Abacus!Mrs Johnston Year FourThe adventures of Year 4! Mrs Innes We were given the task to build a bench. Here we are starting off with the different pieces needed to make the bench and had to look at the diagrams to see what we had to do first. It required good teamwork to fit the pieces together. It worked! We followed the instructions, worked together as a team to build the bench and were relieved and pleased to see that it actually funtions. We had an incursion by 'The Worm Shed' who taught us the importance of having a worm farm and how to make one. Here we are looking for worms - some of us really enjoyed this while others found it to be really gross and challenging! Here we are collecting the materials needed to make our own worm farms! We will spend the next few weeks watching our worms in our cut off bottles before we take them home to enrich our gardens.
Year FiveIn Year 5, we have been learning about Australian penal colonies. We have investigated where and why they were formed, and are looking into the impact that colonisation had on the environment and the Indigenous people. In Mathematics, we have applied our knowledge of multiplication to work out the area and perimeter of squares and rectangles. We have thoroughly enjoyed practising our skills in maths rotations! We recently enjoyed an incursion with some workers from The Worm Shed, who showed us how to make our own worm farms. We loved getting our hands dirty and searching for baby worms! Miss Masters Year SixYear 6 Learning This term in Science we are learning about Biomes of the World and conducting experiments to investigate how the physical conditions of an environment affect the plants and animals that live in it. In Mathematic’s we are learning to use and convert from 12 to 24 hour times, and to create and interpret timetables. Mrs Lotsos MusicOur Kindergarten students have two music sessions a week/rotation. One session is specifically focused on movement to music. They learn positional language as well as awareness of their body moving through time and space, reflecting the musical style they are listening to. Here they are pictured about to engage in ‘Parachute Play’ to the song ‘Grand Old Duke of York’. They march to the beat and then move their parachute to the directional words in the song. Pre-Primary children are learning to move to and compare different dance styles. They are learning to use musical vocabulary such as ‘fast/slow, smooth/bumpy, loud/soft, to describe the feel and sound of the music. They have also learned some classic ‘Rock and Roll’ dance moves and a Hip Hop version of ‘Heads, Shoulders Knees and Toes’. Here they are pictured doing the Hip Hop move called ‘Raise the Roof’. Our Year 3 Students have been working hard on listening to each other as they practice and perform three part vocal and rhythm patterns. Playing three different rhythmic parts in time with each other takes great focus and lots of practice to develop. They have been rising to the challenge. Mrs Marshall Language Italian Signora Kerrigan Parent RepresentativesThank you to all Parent Class Representatives who attended the morning tea last Thursday in the 'Piazza'. It was a wonderful morning of 'meet and greet' and we look forward to working with you all as we build on the solid parent/teacher foundation that has been established here at Regent College over many years. College Administration After School Care This term After School Care students celebrated Chinese New Year by:
Happy Chinese New Year! Mrs Wyatt PRAYERA reminder to all Parents that you are invited to participate in praying for the College and its community every Tuesday morning in the Piazza, directly behind the Administration building. Young, non-school aged, children may attend with a parent.If attending, parents are asked to sign in at Administration following the morning bell and head directly to the Piazza. You may like to consider one of the following oportunities. URStrong is this Friday 23 March at Kingsway Christian College. |